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UNITED STATES GEORGE E. BOOMEE, OE MEXICO, AND EUEUs E. BOsoHEE'r, OE sYEAOUsE, NEW YORK.

PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,013, dated September 26, 14882.

Application nieu october 7, 1881. (No modem' To all whom it may. concern Be it known that we, GEORGE B. BOOMEE, of Mexico, in the county of Oswego, and RUFUS E. BOscHEEr, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Presses, of which the following is a specification.

The press to which our improvement relates ro is that known as the traversing double platform,77 mounted upon trucks and adapted for use with a follower operated by toggle-levers upon a right-and-let't screw, as described in patents granted separately and jointly to us June 27, 187B, and October 12, 1880, to

which reference may be had. In such platform the racks and forms are built up upon each end, and it is moved to present them to the press for separate operation, soas to 'in- 2o crease its capacity. In placing the racks and .forms upon each other they are liable to be set out of line with each other,especially at their outer ends; and our present improvement consistsin means whereby the racks and forms will be set straightat their sides and ends and held in parallel relation to each other and to the sides of the platform, and thereby cause the frames to set level and firm upon each other, avoid liability to break under the action 3o of the press, and in pressing cheese avoid the irregular formation of its sides and ends. The means for effecting these objects will be hereinafter described and made the subject of specic claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of so much of a double-platform press as illustrates the application of our improvement to `the racks and forms built up upon platform;

i 4o Fig.2,one of the removable angle-supports neath the follower for the separate action of 5o the press upon each end. It is provided with posts B B on each side, at the middle of its length, placed opposite each other against the inner sides of the sides of said platform, and connected at their upper ends by a cross-bar, E. It operates between the guide-'rods O O of the follower, which are supported upon the bed-plate F.

The vsupports and setting-guides for the racks and forms are angle-pieces D l), set vertically upon the platform against the posts B and the platform-sides, so as to be-stayed and supported by them. They are of L shape in cross-section, and of a length to allow them to pass beneath the follower when it is raised. They stand loosely upon the platform in the angle made bythe sides of the platform and the fixed posts. The angle or rabbeted part of each angle-guide faces inwardly, 4and together they form setting-guides to receive the inner corners of the racks and forms when laid up, and hold them squarely with each other and with the platform. The inner ends of the superimposed racks and forms F heilig thus held and braced sidewise, their outer ends will thereby be laid even and squarely with eachother. The setting and holding corner guides are then removed and the press operated.

A shoulder may be made on the outer side of the setting-guides, so that when placed in position they will partly rest upon the sides of the platform.

A long button, G, is pivoted on the outer side, near the upper end, of each post B, to support-the upper ends of the corner settingguides and hold them in line with the fixed posts.

The press may be used for pressing cheese and formaking cider, the platform being. suited for either use.

1. The combination, in a press, 'of a platform, A, having xed posts B' B on opposite sides, with removable corner angle-guidemaD D, supported upon the platform against said posts, and adapted to receive, set, and hohl the racks and forms as they are laid upon the platform, substantially as described, forl the In witness whereof we have hereunto set our purpose specified. hands this 2d day of June, 1881.

2. The combination of the platform A, hav- GEO. B. BOOMER. ing xed posts B B, With the removable cor- RUFUS E. BOSOHERT. 5 ner angle-guides, D D, and the buttons G, piv- Witnesses:

oted to the fixed posts, substantially as de- C. W. SMITH,

scribed, for the purpose specified. GEO. W. BAXTER, Jr. 

